Organic CHEMISTRY-may need replacement, come /in to replace

vezokpiraka · Post Post #7 (isolation #0) » Thu May 15, 2014 8:43 am

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In 4 weeks I'll finish all the organic chemistry I have left. It's proteins and sugars. I knows basics about everything else.

vezokpiraka · Post Post #57 (isolation #1) » Sun May 18, 2014 7:17 pm

In post 52, Antihero wrote:
In post 44, Jingle wrote:Also, can anyone tell me if bleach is an organic compound?
there are a number of compounds that are referred to as "bleach". most of them contain some form of hypochlorite, but none of them are organic.

Isn't what we define as organic kind of wonky?
I mean CCl4 is considered organic, but HCl is anorganic.

vezokpiraka · Post Post #59 (isolation #2) » Sun May 18, 2014 11:00 pm

Yet CO2 is inorganic.
Even HCO3- is inorganic and it contains both carbon and hydrogen.

vezokpiraka · Post Post #63 (isolation #3) » Sat May 31, 2014 3:25 am

In post 61, Antihero wrote:
In post 59, vezokpiraka wrote:Yet CO2 is inorganic.
Even HCO3- is inorganic and it contains both carbon and hydrogen.
right, but the carbon and hydrogen aren't bonded. the proton goes onto one of the oxygens.

for something to be organic, it needs "C--H" bonds. i put that in quotes because things get kind of weird sometimes. for example, CCl₄ is organic because the C--Cl bonds can be derived from C--H bonds and kind of behave like them (kind of).

...yeah, it's weird.

I know this stuff. I was just pointing out that the distinction between organic and inorganic is weird and not very useful.